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Topic	sometimes i feel like no one understands what percentile means and we all just
adjl 11/16/23 3:59:40 PM #25:	If we say that the 1st percentile covers everything below 1% (or 0-1%), then 99-100% would be the 100th percentile. That's more commonly called the 99th percentile, though, or occasionally you'll see it broken down asymptotically with fractional percentiles (99.5th, 99.9th, 99.99th, etc). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:977250232] in sometimes ... [t:80619324]...</cite> <quote>If we say that the 1st percentile covers everything below 1% (or 0-1%), then 99-100% would be the 100th percentile. That's more commonly called the 99th percentile, though, or occasionally you'll see it broken down asymptotically with fractional percentiles (99.5th, 99.9th, 99.99th, etc). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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